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Speaker: The flight from India has landed successfully.

"Hello"

A deep male voice spoke through the phone.

"Viraj.."

A soft terrified voice returned the reply.

A sigh escaped from the girl's lightly pink coated lips when after two rings her call was answered by her lover.

"Yes. Who's this?"

Her eyebrows slightly frowned. He hasn't saved her number yet. But she had personally messaged her new number. It doesn't matter. He loves her that's what she wants. And nothing else.

She wetted her lips slightly before speaking again.

"I'm Saanvi. I've reached London."

"Saa--Saanvi!"

A surprise voice sounded from the other side of the phone.

"Saanvi?!"

"Yes Viraaj. When are you coming to receive me?"

She asked anxiously stealing a glance from the unmoving figure sitting beside her on the chair.

"I'm sorry Saanvi."

She looked confused as she heard the apologizing voice of the man. Before she could utter another word he continued,

"I cannot marry you anymore. I--I am sorry. But I don't love you."

All the color suddenly drained from the face of the girl. Her eyes widened in horror.

She hastily started speaking in horror.

"Viraj, what are you saying? This is not the time to joke around. Please don't say things like this. You know I have left my parents and my country for you."

"I can only say sorry to you Saanvi. I thought I was in love with you when I asked you to come here but.." he paused "but when I met Aditi accidentally in one of the cruise party. It was when I knew how it felt to be in love in reality and moreover how can I marry a girl from a poor country. My parents won't agree."

'Darling who are you talking? Now stop working so much...come here..'

Saanvi 's heart broke the instant she heard another voice of a woman coming through the phone.

How??

He cannot!!

I...

"Please do not try to contact me again."

*Beep* *beep*

And the line went dead.

Blankly she stared at the black screen.

She was speechless..

It was like suddenly she was pulled down by her wings from the sky of her dreams to the ground harshly.

The love of her life...

The man who wasn't only her lover but also her childhood bestfriend left her. Just like that.

Was she dreaming a scary dream?

No!! It's not true.

He may be joking.

I will call him again.

She looked up when a soft hand touched her wet eyes with a fragranced little cloth, wiping her tears. She didn't realise when the tears started slipping from her eyes.

"I--" The person beside her wanted to speak but she pulled her lips together at last unable to utter a word 'I told you'.

Instead she patted her bestfriend's shoulder lightly to console her.

Saanvi's body felt light as she finally lost all her power to hold herself together and fell straight inside the embrace of her bestfriend Tina Sharma.

Her tears started to flow like water as she held her shirt tightly in her grasp.

Why was her fate so cruel to her? Doesn't she deserve love?

She was here to marry her childhood bestfriend and former lover ,Viraj Khanna. When he visited India 3 weeks back he promised her that he will only marry her. But her parents didn't agree to their marriage as they didn't trust him, the man who just returned from London becoming a millionaire with some bad reputation as a womanizer. But she was the only one who believed in him like a little fool.

She even ignored the small signs of his betrayal here and there.

She was given two choices, one forget about him or second, marry him and leave her previous world.

Blindly she trusted him more than her parents and contacted Tina who also left to study overseas. Tina was also biased against her idea of getting married to Viraj as he was known to be a big playboy in London.

But her blind trust in love and trusting the person she loved , she ignored all the signs of his ignorance when he returned back in London. So, according to the plan she took the flight to London and left everything behind her without looking back, breaking all the ties of her previous life.

Was she a idiot to trust him? Now she cannot return back to her country either. She was struck here. In this foreign country with no hope for future.

"Stop crying now over a manipulative rascal. It's enough wasting your tears on the bastard like him."

Tina patted her back one last time with a stern expression.

She cannot leave her friend just to cry over a heartless guy. Money and woman, this was the two things he could only worship. She warned her fool innocent friend but, it was also true that true love can make you do so many stupid things.

She looked at the shining engagement ring in her finger and sighed.

It was true. Love can make you fool also. She already missed her fiance who went out in a business trip.

"Get up. We are leaving. No one is waiting for that di* to come and pick you up anymore. You're coming with me. To my place."

She harshly pulled her pale looking friend up and started marching out of the airport pushing her luggage with her.

She needs to divert her mind into work. It will help her realise, no one needs to only depend on a man to earn the value of their lives.

With heavy and sorrowful face Saanvi followed Tina out of the airport. Her body in autopilot. Her mind was lost in the happy memories of Viraj and her. She didn't realise when she was pushed inside the taxi and was moving far away.

Her pale empty eyes focused last time at the empty seat where she just talked to the man who left her without thinking twice and with the insulating explanation.

Was this the only thing written in her fate? Or she was ever going to find true love?

But it was also true, She won't leave him that easy.

If she has guts to leave her country alone for love then she has also power to destroy that love.

'I'll not leave you Viraj. It's my promise to you.'

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